Yet today, the only reference you will find to her in pop culture is as a minor character in the hack-and-slash video game Dante’s Inferno (where she is called “the greediest woman in all of Rome”).

A painting by Ewa Juszkiewicz in the foyer of Andrew Bolton’s New York home © Keith Oshiro The work of art that changed everything for me is Francis Bacon’s “screaming Pope”, after Diego Velázquez’s ...

Jean-Paul Laurens' painting of Honorius Flavius captures the fragility of power in the Roman Empire's decline.

It might come as no surprise, then that among the books he’s recommended is I, Claudius by British writer Robert Graves - a ...

Thursday afternoon, a pair of Picasso prints will go up for sale at Kiechel Auctions, the online spinoff of Kiechel Fine Arts ...

“Statue of Emperor on Throne with Portrait of Augustus,” via Torlonia Foundation, photo by Lorenzo De Masi; “Installation view of ‘Myth and Marble: Ancient Roman Sculpture from the ...

I found people all over the country, black photographers, making mostly portraits of black people but also some of white abolitionists." Incidentally, Willis first wrote about Augustus Washington ...

The Roman emperors were central figures in the ancient Roman religion. The emperor also served as high priest, since he was ...

His life story is part of what Shumard hopes to share in the NPG exhibition "A Durable Memento: Portraits by Augustus Washington, African American Daguerreotypist." Augustus Washington was born in ...

King Augustus II of Poland became so obsessed with ... people would commission portraits of English women in the same manner. Image A silk evening dress from 1934 reflects the role of “Dragon ...

It’s the Wednesday morning after the University of Connecticut Huskies won the NCAA national championship, and Paige Bueckers ...